Modify the packages.yaml schema so that soft-preferences on targets,
compilers and providers can only be specified under the "all" attribute.
This makes them effectively global preferences.
Version preferences instead can only be specified under a package
specific section.
If a preference attribute is found in a section where it should
not be, it will be ignored and a warning is printed to screen.
Most queries will end up calling `spec.satisfies(query)` on everything in the DB, which
will cause Spack to ask whether the query spec is virtual if its name doesn't match the
target spec's. This can be expensive, because it can cause Spack to check if any new
virtuals showed up in *all* the packages it knows about. That can currently trigger
thousands of `stat()` calls.
We can avoid the virtual check for most successful queries if we consider that if there
*is* a match by name, the query spec *can't* be virtual. This PR adds an optimization to
the query loop to save any comparisons that would trigger a virtual check for last.
- [x] Add a `deferred` list to the `query()` loop.
- [x] First run through the `query()` loop *only* checks for name matches.
- [x] Query loop now returns early if there's a name match, skipping most `satisfies()` calls.
- [x] Second run through the `deferred()` list only runs if query spec is virtual.
- [x] Fix up handling of concrete specs.
- [x] Add test for querying virtuals in DB.
- [x] Avoid allocating deferred if not necessary.
---------
Co-authored-by: Harmen Stoppels <me@harmenstoppels.nl>
Currently there's some hacky logic in the AppleClang compiler that makes
it also accept `gfortran` as a fortran compiler if `flang` is not found.
This is guarded by `if sys.platform` checks s.t. it only applies to
Darwin.
But on Linux the feature of detecting mixed toolchains is highly
requested too, cause it's rather annoying to run into a failed build of
`openblas` after dozens of minutes of compiling its dependencies, just
because clang doesn't have a fortran compiler.
In particular in CI where the system compilers may change during system
updates, it's typically impossible to fix compilers in a hand-written
compilers.yaml config file: the config will almost certainly be outdated
sooner or later, and maintaining one config file per target machine and
writing logic to select the correct config is rather undesirable too.
---
This PR introduces a flag `spack compiler find --mixed-toolchain` that
fills out missing `fc` and `f77` entries in `clang` / `apple-clang` by
picking the best matching `gcc`.
It is enabled by default on macOS, but not on Linux, matching current
behavior of `spack compiler find`.
The "best matching gcc" logic and compiler path updates are identical to
how compiler path dictionaries are currently flattened "horizontally"
(per compiler id). This just adds logic to do the same "vertically"
(across different compiler ids).
So, with this change on Ubuntu 22.04:
```
$ spack compiler find --mixed-toolchain
==> Added 6 new compilers to /home/harmen/.spack/linux/compilers.yaml
gcc@13.1.0 gcc@12.3.0 gcc@11.4.0 gcc@10.5.0 clang@16.0.0 clang@15.0.7
==> Compilers are defined in the following files:
/home/harmen/.spack/linux/compilers.yaml
```
you finally get:
```
compilers:
- compiler:
spec: clang@=15.0.7
paths:
cc: /usr/bin/clang
cxx: /usr/bin/clang++
f77: /usr/bin/gfortran
fc: /usr/bin/gfortran
flags: {}
operating_system: ubuntu23.04
target: x86_64
modules: []
environment: {}
extra_rpaths: []
- compiler:
spec: clang@=16.0.0
paths:
cc: /usr/bin/clang-16
cxx: /usr/bin/clang++-16
f77: /usr/bin/gfortran
fc: /usr/bin/gfortran
flags: {}
operating_system: ubuntu23.04
target: x86_64
modules: []
environment: {}
extra_rpaths: []
```
The "best gcc" is automatically default system gcc, since it has no
suffixes / prefixes.
Add a new config section: `config:aliases`, which is a dictionary mapping aliases
to commands.
For instance:
```yaml
config:
aliases:
sp: spec -I
```
will define a new command `sp` that will execute `spec` with the `-I`
argument.
Aliases cannot override existing commands, and this is ensured with a test.
We cannot currently alias subcommands. Spack will warn about any aliases
containing a space, but will not error, which leaves room for subcommand
aliases in the future.
---------
Co-authored-by: Todd Gamblin <tgamblin@llnl.gov>
* Test that setup_run_environment changes to CC/CXX/FC/F77 are dropped in build env
* compilers set in run env shouldn't impact build
Adds `drop` to EnvironmentModifications courtesy of @haampie, and uses
it to clear modifications of CC, CXX, F77 and FC made by
`setup_{,dependent_}run_environment` routines when producing an
environment in BUILD context.
* comment / style
* comment
---------
Co-authored-by: Tom Scogland <scogland1@llnl.gov>
This adds a rather trivial context manager that lets you deduplicate repeated
arguments in directives, e.g.
```python
depends_on("py-x@1", when="@1", type=("build", "run"))
depends_on("py-x@2", when="@2", type=("build", "run"))
depends_on("py-x@3", when="@3", type=("build", "run"))
depends_on("py-x@4", when="@4", type=("build", "run"))
```
can be condensed to
```python
with default_args(type=("build", "run")):
depends_on("py-x@1", when="@1")
depends_on("py-x@2", when="@2")
depends_on("py-x@3", when="@3")
depends_on("py-x@4", when="@4")
```
The advantage is it's clear for humans, the downside it's less clear for type checkers due to type erasure.
Create chains of causation for error messages.
The current implementation is only completed for some of the many errors presented by the concretizer. The rest will need to be filled out over time, but this demonstrates the capability.
The basic idea is to associate conditions in the solver with one another in causal relationships, and to associate errors with the proximate causes of their facts in the condition graph. Then we can construct causal trees to explain errors, which will hopefully present users with useful information to avoid the error or report issues.
Technically, this is implemented as a secondary solve. The concretizer computes the optimal model, and if the optimal model contains an error, then a secondary solve computes causation information about the error(s) in the concretizer output.
Examples:
$ spack solve hdf5 ^cmake@3.0.1
==> Error: concretization failed for the following reasons:
1. Cannot satisfy 'cmake@3.0.1'
2. Cannot satisfy 'cmake@3.0.1'
required because hdf5 ^cmake@3.0.1 requested from CLI
3. Cannot satisfy 'cmake@3.18:' and 'cmake@3.0.1
required because hdf5 ^cmake@3.0.1 requested from CLI
required because hdf5 depends on cmake@3.18: when @1.13:
required because hdf5 ^cmake@3.0.1 requested from CLI
4. Cannot satisfy 'cmake@3.12:' and 'cmake@3.0.1
required because hdf5 depends on cmake@3.12:
required because hdf5 ^cmake@3.0.1 requested from CLI
required because hdf5 ^cmake@3.0.1 requested from CLI
$ spack spec cmake ^curl~ldap # <-- with curl configured non-buildable and an external with `+ldap`
==> Error: concretization failed for the following reasons:
1. Attempted to use external for 'curl' which does not satisfy any configured external spec
2. Attempted to build package curl which is not buildable and does not have a satisfying external
attr('variant_value', 'curl', 'ldap', 'True') is an external constraint for curl which was not satisfied
3. Attempted to build package curl which is not buildable and does not have a satisfying external
attr('variant_value', 'curl', 'gssapi', 'True') is an external constraint for curl which was not satisfied
4. Attempted to build package curl which is not buildable and does not have a satisfying external
'curl+ldap' is an external constraint for curl which was not satisfied
'curl~ldap' required
required because cmake ^curl~ldap requested from CLI
$ spack solve yambo+mpi ^hdf5~mpi
==> Error: concretization failed for the following reasons:
1. 'hdf5' required multiple values for single-valued variant 'mpi'
2. 'hdf5' required multiple values for single-valued variant 'mpi'
Requested '~mpi' and '+mpi'
required because yambo depends on hdf5+mpi when +mpi
required because yambo+mpi ^hdf5~mpi requested from CLI
required because yambo+mpi ^hdf5~mpi requested from CLI
3. 'hdf5' required multiple values for single-valued variant 'mpi'
Requested '~mpi' and '+mpi'
required because netcdf-c depends on hdf5+mpi when +mpi
required because netcdf-fortran depends on netcdf-c
required because yambo depends on netcdf-fortran
required because yambo+mpi ^hdf5~mpi requested from CLI
required because netcdf-fortran depends on netcdf-c@4.7.4: when @4.5.3:
required because yambo depends on netcdf-fortran
required because yambo+mpi ^hdf5~mpi requested from CLI
required because yambo depends on netcdf-c
required because yambo+mpi ^hdf5~mpi requested from CLI
required because yambo depends on netcdf-c+mpi when +mpi
required because yambo+mpi ^hdf5~mpi requested from CLI
required because yambo+mpi ^hdf5~mpi requested from CLI
Future work:
In addition to fleshing out the causes of other errors, I would like to find a way to associate different components of the error messages with different causes. In this example it's pretty easy to infer which part is which, but I'm not confident that will always be the case.
See the previous PR #34500 for discussion of how the condition chains are incomplete. In the future, we may need custom logic for individual attributes to associate some important choice rules with conditions such that clingo choices or other derivations can be part of the explanation.
---------
Co-authored-by: Massimiliano Culpo <massimiliano.culpo@gmail.com>
This PR implements the concept of "default environment", which doesn't have to be
created explicitly. The aim is to lower the barrier for adopting environments.
To (create and) activate the default environment, run
```
$ spack env activate
```
This mimics the behavior of
```
$ cd
```
which brings you to your home directory.
This is not a breaking change, since `spack env activate` without arguments
currently errors. It is similar to the already existing `spack env activate --temp`
command which always creates an env in a temporary directory, the difference
is that the default environment is a managed / named environment named `default`.
The name `default` is not a reserved name, it's just that `spack env activate`
creates it for you if you don't have it already.
With this change, you can get started with environments faster:
```
$ spack env activate [--prompt]
$ spack install --add x y z
```
instead of
```
$ spack env create default
==> Created environment 'default in /Users/harmenstoppels/spack/var/spack/environments/default
==> You can activate this environment with:
==> spack env activate default
$ spack env activate [--prompt] default
$ spack install --add x y z
```
Notice that Spack supports switching (but not stacking) environments, so the
parallel with `cd` is pretty clear:
```
$ spack env activate named_env
$ spack env status
==> In environment named_env
$ spack env activate
$ spack env status
==> In environment default
```
* Add command suggestions
This adds suggestions of similar commands in case users mistype a
command. Before:
```
$ spack spack
==> Error: spack is not a recognized Spack command or extension command; check with `spack commands`.
```
After:
```
$ spack spack
==> Error: spack is not a recognized Spack command or extension command; check with `spack commands`.
Did you mean one of the following commands?
spec
patch
```
* Add package name suggestions
* Remove suggestion to run spack clean -m
This PR adds support for including separate definitions from `spack.yaml`.
Supporting the inclusion of files with definitions enables user to make
curated/standardized collections of packages that can re-used by others.
Currently module globals aren't set before running
`setup_[dependent_]run_environment` to compute environment modifications
for module files. This commit fixes that.
Looking at the memory profiles of concurrent solves
for environment with unify:false, it seems memory
is only ramping up.
This exchange in the potassco mailing list:
https://sourceforge.net/p/potassco/mailman/potassco-users/thread/b55b5b8c2e8945409abb3fa3c935c27e%40lohn.at/#msg36517698
Seems to suggest that clingo doesn't release memory
until end of the application.
Since when unify:false we distribute work to processes,
here we give a maxtaskperchild=1, so we clean memory
after each solve.
Some providers must provide virtuals "together", i.e.
if they provide one virtual of a set, they must be the
providers also of the others.
There was a bug though, where we were not checking if
the other virtuals in the set were needed at all in
the DAG.
This commit fixes the bug.
This PR makes it possible to select only a subset of virtual dependencies from a spec that _may_ provide more. To select providers, a syntax to specify edge attributes is introduced:
```
hdf5 ^[virtuals=mpi] mpich
```
With that syntax we can concretize specs like:
```console
$ spack spec strumpack ^[virtuals=mpi] intel-parallel-studio+mkl ^[virtuals=lapack] openblas
```
On `develop` this would currently fail with:
```console
$ spack spec strumpack ^intel-parallel-studio+mkl ^openblas
==> Error: Spec cannot include multiple providers for virtual 'blas'
Requested 'intel-parallel-studio' and 'openblas'
```
In package recipes, virtual specs that are declared in the same `provides` directive need to be provided _together_. This means that e.g. `openblas`, which has:
```python
provides("blas", "lapack")
```
needs to provide both `lapack` and `blas` when requested to provide at least one of them.
## Additional notes
This capability is needed to model compilers. Assuming that languages are treated like virtual dependencies, we might want e.g. to use LLVM to compile C/C++ and Gnu GCC to compile Fortran. This can be accomplished by the following[^1]:
```
hdf5 ^[virtuals=c,cxx] llvm ^[virtuals=fortran] gcc
```
[^1]: We plan to add some syntactic sugar around this syntax, and reuse the `%` sigil to avoid having a lot of boilerplate around compilers.
Modifications:
- [x] Add syntax to interact with edge attributes from spec literals
- [x] Add concretization logic to be able to cherry-pick virtual dependencies
- [x] Extend semantic of the `provides` directive to express when virtuals need to be provided together
- [x] Add unit-tests and documentation
Allowing white space around `:` in version ranges introduces an ambiguity:
```
a@1: b
```
parses as `a@1:b` but should really be parsed as two separate specs `a@1:` and `b`.
With white space disallowed around `:` in ranges, the ambiguity is resolved.
Call setup_dependent_run_environment on both link and run edges,
instead of only run edges, which restores old behavior.
Move setup_build_environment into get_env_modifications
Also call setup_run_environment on direct build deps, since their run
environment has to be set up.
* Add tests to ensure variant propagation syntax can round-trip to/from string
* Add a regression test for the bug in 35298
* Reconstruct the spec constraints in the worker process
Specs do not preserve any information on propagation of variants
when round-tripping to/from JSON (which we use to pickle), but
preserve it when round-tripping to/from strings.
Therefore, we pass a spec literal to the worker and reconstruct
the Spec objects there.
- [x] Add links to information people are going to want to know when adding license
information to their packages (namely OSI licenses and SPDX identifiers).
- [x] Update the packaging docs for `license()` with Spack as an example for `when=`.
After all, it's a dual-licensed package that changed once in the past.
- [x] Add link to https://spdx.org/licenses/ in the `spack create` boilerplate as well.
Typically MSVC is detected via the VSWhere program. However, this may
not be available, or may be installed in an unpredictable location.
This PR adds an additional approach via Windows Registry queries to
determine VS install location root.
Additionally:
* Construct vs_install_paths after class-definition time (move it to
variable-access time).
* Skip over keys for which a user does not have read permissions
when performing searches (previously the presence of these keys
would have caused an error, regardless of whether they were
needed).
* Extend helper functionality with option for regex matching on
registry keys vs. exact string matching.
* Some internal refactoring: remove boolean parameters in some cases
where the function was always called with the same value
(e.g. `find_subkey`)
.bat or .exe files can be considered executable on Windows. This PR
expands the regex for detectable packages to allow for the detection
of packages that vendor .bat wrappers (intel mpi for example).
Additional changes:
* Outside of Windows, when searching for executables `path_hints=None`
was used to indicate that default path hints should be provided,
and `[]` was taken to mean that no defaults should be chosen
(in that case, nothing is searched); behavior on Windows has
now been updated to match.
* Above logic for handling of `path_hints=[]` has also been extended
to library search (for both Linux and Windows).
* All exceptions for external packages were documented as timeout
errors: this commit adds a distinction for other types of errors
in warning messages to the user.
Credits to @ChristianKniep for advocating the idea of OCI image layers
being identical to spack buildcache tarballs.
With this you can configure an OCI registry as a buildcache:
```console
$ spack mirror add my_registry oci://user/image # Dockerhub
$ spack mirror add my_registry oci://ghcr.io/haampie/spack-test # GHCR
$ spack mirror set --push --oci-username ... --oci-password ... my_registry # set login credentials
```
which should result in this config:
```yaml
mirrors:
my_registry:
url: oci://ghcr.io/haampie/spack-test
push:
access_pair: [<username>, <password>]
```
It can be used like any other registry
```
spack buildcache push my_registry [specs...]
```
It will upload the Spack tarballs in parallel, as well as manifest + config
files s.t. the binaries are compatible with `docker pull` or `skopeo copy`.
In fact, a base image can be added to get a _runnable_ image:
```console
$ spack buildcache push --base-image ubuntu:23.04 my_registry python
Pushed ... as [image]:python-3.11.2-65txfcpqbmpawclvtasuog4yzmxwaoia.spack
$ docker run --rm -it [image]:python-3.11.2-65txfcpqbmpawclvtasuog4yzmxwaoia.spack
```
which should really be a game changer for sharing binaries.
Further, all content-addressable blobs that are downloaded and verified
will be cached in Spack's download cache. This should make repeated
`push` commands faster, as well as `push` followed by a separate
`update-index` command.
An end to end example of how to use this in Github Actions is here:
**https://github.com/haampie/spack-oci-buildcache-example**
TODO:
- [x] Generate environment modifications in config so PATH is set up
- [x] Enrich config with Spack's `spec` json (this is allowed in the OCI specification)
- [x] When ^ is done, add logic to create an index in say `<image>:index` by fetching all config files (using OCI distribution discovery API)
- [x] Add logic to use object storage in an OCI registry in `spack install`.
- [x] Make the user pick the base image for generated OCI images.
- [x] Update buildcache install logic to deal with absolute paths in tarballs
- [x] Merge with `spack buildcache` command
- [x] Merge #37441 (included here)
- [x] Merge #39077 (included here)
- [x] #39187 + #39285
- [x] #39341
- [x] Not a blocker: #35737 fixes correctness run env for the generated container images
NOTE:
1. `oci://` is unfortunately taken, so it's being abused in this PR to mean "oci type mirror". `skopeo` uses `docker://` which I'd like to avoid, given that classical docker v1 registries are not supported.
2. this is currently `https`-only, given that basic auth is used to login. I _could_ be convinced to allow http, but I'd prefer not to, given that for a `spack buildcache push` command multiple domains can be involved (auth server, source of base image, destination registry). Right now, no urllib http handler is added, so redirects to https and auth servers with http urls will simply result in a hard failure.
CAVEATS:
1. Signing is not implemented in this PR. `gpg --clearsign` is not the nicest solution, since (a) the spec.json is merged into the image config, which must be valid json, and (b) it would be better to sign the manifest (referencing both config/spec file and tarball) using more conventional image signing tools
2. `spack.binary_distribution.push` is not yet implemented for the OCI buildcache, only `spack buildcache push` is. This is because I'd like to always push images + deps to the registry, so that it's `docker pull`-able, whereas in `spack ci` we really wanna push an individual package without its deps to say `pr-xyz`, while its deps reside in some `develop` buildcache.
3. The `push -j ...` flag only works for OCI buildcache, not for others
